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Consider providing String constants in IanaLinkRelations

See original GitHub issue

Currently, it’s not possible to reuse IanaLinkRelations in use cases such as Relation#collectionRelation due to limitation of annotation attributes that must be compile time constants.

It would be nice if IanaLinkRelations could be extended to provide String constant values in similar manner like in MediaTypes.

If this change is acceptable, I’d be glad to provide a PR.

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gregturncommented, Mar 12, 2020

Merged and backported to 1.0.

Thanks @vpavic!

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gregturncommented, Mar 9, 2020

Please do. You can ask me to then review it if you wish.

PS a test case leveraging it the way you described would look great.

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